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The Census and Statistics Department (C&SD) published today (July 15) the July 2013 issue of the Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics (HKMDS).
In this issue, two feature articles entitled "Human Resources with Post-secondary Education or Working as Professionals/Associate Professionals" and "Foreign Affiliates Statistics of Hong Kong" are included.
"Human Resources with Post-secondary Education or Working as Professionals/Associate Professionals"
Human resources development has long been seen as one of the thrusts for enhancing competitiveness and sustaining economic development of an economy. Statistics on human resources are useful information to throw light on the supply of human capital for sustainable development. This feature article focuses on two groups in human resources, viz. persons with post-secondary education and persons working as professionals/associate professionals, who are crucial to the development of a knowledge-based economy.
For enquiries about this feature article, please call the Science and Technology Statistics Section, C&SD (Tel: 2887 5138).
"Foreign Affiliates Statistics of Hong Kong"
With increasing globalisation of the world economy, it becomes popular for multinational enterprises to provide services to customers in another economy through setting up affiliated companies abroad.
In view of the growing importance of services supplied via this mode, C&SD has developed a statistical framework for compiling relevant statistics, known as "foreign affiliates statistics (FATS)". This feature article introduces the statistical system for compiling inward FATS, and presents selected inward FATS data of Hong Kong in 2011. It also gives a brief account of the development in the compilation of Hong Kong's outward FATS.
For enquiries about this feature article, please call the Trade in Services Statistics Section, C&SD (Tel: 2802 1350).
Published in bilingual form, the HKMDS is a compact volume of official statistics containing about 140 tables. It collects up-to-date statistical series on various aspects of the social and economic situation of Hong Kong. Topics include population; labour; external trade; national income and Balance of Payments; prices; business performance; energy; housing and property; Government accounts, finance and insurance; and transport, communications and tourism. For selected key statistical items, over 20 charts depicting the annual trend in the past decade and quarterly or monthly trend in the recent two years are also available. Users can download the Digest free of charge at the website of C&SD (www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/sp140.jsp?productCode=B1010002).
Enquiries about the contents of the Digest can be directed to the General Statistics Section of C&SD (Tel: 2582 4738).
Ends/Monday, July 15, 2013
Issued at HKT 16:00
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